Show OBITUARY SISTER UZA ELIZA FURNISS jhb funeral sert services ices of sister ann eliza Elita furniss were held at the first ward schoolhouse on the ath of may 1884 in the presence of a largo large number of friend with whom she had associated for many long iong years and who had come to pay their last respects to their dead friend in the gospel of jesus christ after singing the services were opened by prayer by elder woods hinging singing again and then elder joseph hall gave a very pointed and ana appropriate address ad dresa showing sh otting the cause and disparity of the shortness of life in the human family compared with those who lived soon after man inan was placed upon the earth from one hundred to near a thousand years the these se men lived under the direct ministration of god and his angels and had the one gospel nf jesus christ that taught tham the ways of life the groat greit majority y of mankind had bad rejected the gospel of the son of god hence they tb ey had be como demoralized politically religiously socially and morally which has produced such a multitude of diseases and the shortness of human life compared with what it was vas in tile beginning elder hall also showed from the sayings of the ancient prophets that a person dying at thea the ago of a hundred be called a child which was yet in the future and that men would live to the age of a tree which would no doubt be many more years than that ofa of a child hence the necessity of the same laws being revealed by which the ancient people of god were taught how to obtain such longevity many more good things were nvere said by the speaker after which also edifying ayi fyi ng remarks were made by elders burch and garner and bp critchlow by the latter of whom tho the services services were conducted suggestive of the h high gh esteem in which our dead sister er was s he held id of her faithfulness through ti trials is it her er g good moral teachings to her children and also words of condole condol ence and comfort to the bereaved soon after which a large cortege followed the remain to their laet rest ing place sister ann anti ell ellza z a furniss was born on the of no november vember 1817 in th the town of sheffield county of yorkshire england being the eldest daughter of thomas hourt hurt and hannah ward she was married to isaac furniss forniss in st peters church in lier her native town on tho the alth of april 1841 in the fall of 1843 she obeyed the gospel with her husband hue band and emigrated to the united states in the year 1849 in april 1854 slie she started to cross the plums plains where she had a child born on the camp ground under rather unfavorable circumstances in the midst of the sick aniL dying of cholera she traveled nearly all the tw way en on foot carrying the babe in her arms she got into salt lake city on the of sept of tho the same year she the hard times of 1855 1835 6 she traveled in the time of the t move shoeless and but very thinly clad yet rame came back to ogden where she resided from eho she set foot in these valleys to the time of her ter death yet in all the trials and vicissitudes of lifo life she was ne yer heard to murmur or complain in her latter diya days she was bleared with plenty As a member of the church of jesus christ of Latt enday saints she was faithful As it wife she was virtuous good and true asa mother she site tati f lit ana and brought lier her chilgren chi luren up in vi virtue etue and good morals and she was ss respected by all who know knew lier her she was the mothe eight c cli 1 il ildren d n five boys and three girls t two ie girle r 1 and ono boy living the others other died C d when w hen young she was also tile gra grandmother nd of ten children three of whom are dead all lier living children are hero here and in the church with their families |